See that funny guy up above?  He looks kind of like the start of a balloon animal to me.  He’s a butternut squash and I decided I wanted to try one last week because I don’t think I ever have before.  Don’t let the mild exterior fool you, inside he’s a bright orangey yellow and packed with fiber.  Plus he’s full of nutrients, especially vitamin A, we’re talking 300% your daily value in 1/2 cup of cubed squash.  What a nutrition powerhouse!  Here’s a quick photo tutorial on how to peel and seed the squash, with a recipe soon to follow. Read more

Roasting garlic is a classic technique that mellows and enhances the flavor of garlic so much that I want to simply eat clove after clove.  It’s so easy to make roasted garlic, but a lot of people don’t know how to do it, so I thought I’d make a quick tutorial for you. Read more

Everyone should know how to boil an egg, it’s a cooking basic right?  Or maybe not.  Several years ago in Hawaii I wanted to boil some eggs for tuna salad.  I suddenly realized that whenever I’d done it at home, I had a nifty little boiled egg timer that my mom used.  With no timer, and no money to buy one, I turned to the one source I knew could tell me how long to boil an egg.  I called my mom!

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